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It's kinda a wild fact that there are these Internet Protocols that are used extremely widely, but knowledge how they work is scarce.
For reasons, I just wondered a few things about OCSP. That's part of TLS, and, idk, most people would probably attribute "knowledge of TLS" to me.
Yet... I kinda know what OCSP does, but... I don't really know how the protocol works.
And if I google for something like "easy explanation of OCSP", I don't find a…

I think when the web took off it felt like “Hey, this is an amazing library of information and knowledge!” but then people found ways to make money from it, which is very much not like a library.
Pre-web if you saw a library and thought “Hey, that’s a great way to make money!” you were either a fool or someone with a thirst for knowledge.

At a time of simultaneous climate and biodiversity crises, protecting land and sea is key for conservation.
However, for protected areas to function as effective engines of knowledge generation, they must adapt to rapid changes and be adequately equipped to monitor environmental change both as individual sites and as nodes in a larger knowledge network.
The Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve
—a nearly 25,000-acre property that sits at Point Conception in Santa Barbara Coun…

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge ✔️
"Striking [90 year old] essay on letting artists and scholars and scientists do what they will. Great things happen." (David Syzdek). hosting by Bret Victor.
https://worrydream.com/refs/Flexner_1939_-_T…

Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in July; its annualized revenue run rate has hit ~$2B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/quince-talks-double-valuation-10-billion…

Quince in Talks to Double Valuation to More Than $10 Billion
Online retailer Quince is in talks with investors to raise a funding round that would value the company at above $10 billion after the investment, according to a person with knowledge of the plans. If the talks are successful, the buzzy online brand would more than double its valuation from its ...

„Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity.“
https://worrydream.com/refs/Flexner_1939_-_The_Usefulness_of_Useless_Knowledge.html

Just had another one of those "OMG ChatGPT can do that?" moments.
We're quickly moving past knowledge work, and past knowledge itself. The only frontier after this will be human attention.
The rub is... As one who competes in the attention economy, let me tell you: Every day, there is less of it to compete for, and more competitors. And now AI can blow that out to infinity.
Anyone who 'makes content' is now up against infinite competitors. And they …

#ReleaseSaturday — This week I've been working on extracting, refactoring & generalizing the minimal column store database I've been using for my personal knowledge/media management toolset, and I'm happy to share it with the world now:
https://

The current AI models let you easily experiment with application ideas like never before. For experimentation, quickly trying out ideas, they are great. That is something completely different from serious/professional use I am fully aware. Still your creativity is now the limit, not your knowledge of python, jscript etc and that is fascinating .
#AI

"Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion, research reveals"
#Plastic #Plastics #MicroPlastics

Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion, research reveals
Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from Germany for the first time: Around 4% of the particulate matter consists of plastic. Around two-thirds of this comes from tire abrasion.

Von allen Notiz-Apps, die ich bisher gesehen und teilw. getestet habe, hat es mir Trilium am meisten angetan:
- komplett Open Source
- verschlüsselte Notizen
- kann selbst gehostete Synchronisierung
- viele Features (Zeichnungen, Diagramme, Karten, Reveal.js Präsentationen, Publishing, usw.)
- SQLite unter der Haube
Leider ist es eine Web-App – nativ wäre mir am liebsten. Es gibt auch KI-Kram, aber der ist per default aus, kann Ollama und wird nicht aggressiv …

On March 9th I’m helping launch AI Foundations for Educators, a 5-week online course that goes beyond workshop-level knowledge to guide teachers and school staff in developing a personalized framework for adapting classrooms to AI.
It’s a pilot module for a planned online certificate on generative AI; would count as credit toward that graduate credential. Open to anyone with a BA.

Talking climate with Katherine Hayhoe
https://open.substack.com/pub/talkingclimatenewsletter/p/how-silencing-science-harms-us-all?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx

How silencing science harms us all
Turning waste into heat, knowledge under attack, and how science benefits you

Adding to the institutional knowledge, AKA writing up an incident in the "Things that have previously gone wrong" section of the Ops Manual

2-year postdoc on the #history of USAID at @…
The Chair of African History at the University of Bayreuth invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. The fellowship is embedded in the interdis…

The case of “vegetative electron microscopy” illustrated here shows what is badly needed in current #LLM research and has implications far beyond. We need tools that help us curate huge corpora. We need to be able to trace #hallucinations back to the training data and understand what are the specific (to a sur…

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.

Watching a video of an ICE agent executing someone in the street, with the knowledge that they'll probably end up on the chat show circuit.

Sätze aus der Hölle: "Die EUDI-Wallet Sandbox ist das Tor zum europäischen digitalen Identitäts-Ökosystem (EUDI-Wallet)."
Ecosystem Knowledge Centre - EUDI-Wallets / eIDAS 2
https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/eidas2/ecosystem_kno…

Cowboys fire defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus after one season, AP sources say https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboys-fire-defensive-coordinator-matt-eberflus-after-one-season-ap-sources-say

"Christopher Bishop’s 2006 book “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning,” arguably one of the triggers of the current popularity of machine learning, is quite literally a book about applied mathematics, diving into probabilities, linear algebra, neural networks, Markov models, and combinatorics. And rightfully so; if your objective is to find a job as an engineer at OpenAI, knowing a thing or two about eigenvalues and eigenvectors is definitely going to be useful."

In Praise Of Mathematics
How much math knowledge does a programmer need to know to fulfill their job? How deep should the mathematical knowledge of full-stack engineers, computer security experts, or large language model engineers be? The spectrum of possible answers to these questions is too large to be useful. Perhaps the eternal answer "it depends" is enough?

Think of this as a good place to start
— for you and your loved ones
— to expand your knowledge of indie news outlets
who are more deserving of your time and money than corporate, billionaire-owned media.
And feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
https://www.thehandbask…

Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.

Today I accomplished my very first sell high and buy low in the stock market. A little bit of knowledge and a little bit of luck.

One of the strongest factors in building and motivating an organization as a leader is saying out loud regularly that you care about people.
As Alicja frames, it's the difference between knowing what ice cream tastes like and actually eating ice cream.
It is so SO meaningful to tell people that you care about them, that you value their expertise and work, that they deserve to be respected and supported, and so on. Customize it to the individual situation: identify what someo…

"Personal Knowledge Management is for Life, Not Just for Work"
#PKM

House panel marks up kids digital safety act amid Democrat backlash https://therecord.media/house-panel-marks-up-kids-digital-safety-act

Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-early-talks-trade-desk-sell-ad…

OpenAI Held Early Talks With The Trade Desk to Sell Ads
OpenAI has held early talks to partner with The Trade Desk, a publicly traded ad tech company, to help the ChatGPT maker sell ads, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The talks indicate that OpenAI, which launched ads in ChatGPT in early February, will initially lean on ...

❝Sites of memory increasingly fail to reach new generations. Visitors learn facts, dates, perpetrators. But knowledge of past crimes does not automatically prevent future ones. Many institutions still teach a reassuring lesson: there were evil people once, they were defeated, we are different. Evil is placed safely in the past. The visitor leaves morally intact.❞

Poland says it had advance knowledge of US-Israel strikes on Iran (Bartosz Brzeziński/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-advance-knowledge-us-israel-strikes-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p72#a260228p72

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
― B.B. King
#Learning #Music #Knowledge

The Zeroing of Knowledge: When Everything Is Known, What Remains Worth Learning?
Knowledge used to be expensive. It cost years of apprenticeship, tuition in the tens of thousands, decades of practice, and, more than anything, the brutal currency of time. A physician spent twelve years beyond high school before being trusted to cut into a human body. A lawyer spent seven years and a bar exam before being permitted to argue before a judge.

The Zeroing of Knowledge: When Everything Is Known, What Remains Worth Learning? | David Boles, Blogs
Knowledge used to be expensive. It cost years of apprenticeship, tuition in the tens of thousands, decades of practice, and, more than anything, the brutal currency of time. A physician spent twelv…

These proposals were common knowledge in Bulgaria. I remember the oldtimers being disgusted how desperately in love was the regime with the Soviets, while the Bulgarian economy had been crashing constantly way into the 1980s (which was a not that common knowledge because it was kept in secret from the population that didn't perish in prisons and work camps). Fully incompetent, servile scum in full power for 45 years straight.
Why did the USSR Refuse to Annex Bulgaria?

No Space Is Empty
Powerhouse's First Nations knowledge symposium, returns as a five-part podcast series...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/no-space-is-empty/

Für das Anlegen einer "Knowledge Base" aus Richtlinien der EINRICHTUNG, die man dann abfragen kann ("darf ich eine Forschungsreise nach China machen und mein Handy mitnehmen?"), ist die neue AI-Toolbox sehr gut geeignet. Seit ich herausfand, wie man darin Dokumente hochladen kann.

Keynote about #digitalsovereignty by @… this morning at #deRSE26.
The knowledge is in the source code.

Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything on a computer with impressive capabilities (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-code-is-about-so-much-more

Claude Code is about so much more than coding
It’s a general-purpose AI agent. And it’s already a pretty good knowledge worker

#WhichYear 3/5/26
4402 pts (top 19%)
4.6 avg. years off
1️⃣ ⚪ 1️⃣ 6️⃣ 🎯
https://whichyr.com

Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game
Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.

crazy theory/hot take: the late 20th century and early 21st century has had a growing anti-knowledge bent because there is an underlying societal diminishing of cognitive abilitiy due to widespread lead poisoning from leaded fuel and other products.
#lead #oil #tmiw
https://m.slashdot.org/story/452100

Hey... it's snowing again... what a surprise.
Our first winter in Barrie has been eventful as we've now gone 12 days with 2cm or more snow accumulation per day, and had a streak broken yesterday of 10 straight days of heavy snow / snow squall warnings.
According to local media the 2025 November/December snowfall amount is the highest in 25 years. Based on my substantial lack of meteorological knowledge I am predicting less snow than normal for the rest of the winter. The lakes are cooling quickly and icing over due to the colder than normal temperatures. That should reduce the lake effect snow squalls coming off of Georgian Bay. (Delivered in my Cliff Clavin voice).
#Snowmageddon #IceAge

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
"AI slop on ScienceDirect (Elsevier), a “premier platform for scientific, health and technical literature”
https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/

This Week in Sports Trivia: Super Bowl 60 edition https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7019055/2026/02/04/this-week-in-sports-trivia-super-bowl-60/

Ohne Krankenversicherung in Alaska: Hubschraubertransport & Blinddarmentfernung kosten 60.000–140.000 USD. Die gesamten Kosten müssen selbst getragen werden.
Es ist nicht unwahrscheinlich, dass #Inuit in den #USA nicht krankenversichert sind, 1/4 lebt unter der Armutsgrenze.

Poverty and Health Disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects
This report explores the current state of knowledge regarding inequalities and their effect on American Indian and Alaska Native children, underscoring gaps in our current knowledge and the opportunities for early intervention to begin to address ...

I'm going to try the following experiment. I'm clearing ~half a day every week to plug a gap in my knowledge. To learn something I've been meaning to learn about for ages. Could be in my field (like energy based models) could be outside (like electronics).
I'll keep a running todo list of things to learn, and just pick one on the day that I feel like reading up on.

"A package’s value isn’t primarily its implementation code. Anyone can rewrite curl in Rust in a weekend, as Daniel Stenberg has heard many times. What they can’t rewrite is the twenty years of bug reports, the weird edge cases someone hit in production and took the time to fix, the arguments in issue threads that eventually settled on the right behavior. That knowledge is spread across the package’s history and it grew organically. No prompt captures it."
https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/30/will-ai-make-package-managers-redundant.html
Excellent piece by @…

Sonnet 014 - XIV
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;
And yet methinks I have Astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And, constant stars, in them I read such art <…

99% of us breathe unsafe air—and it's hitting low- and middle-income countries hardest.
The World Bank says we can cut exposure to hazardous air pollution in half by 2040, and it's actually cost-effective. Multilateral development banks are stepping up with funding, partnerships, and knowledge sharing to make it happen.

Investing in Clean Air: How Multilateral Development Banks Are Accelerating Access
We brought together multilateral development banks (MDBs) to showcase how they are helping countries tackle air pollution through knowledge, financing, and partnerships.

🚀 Auf unserer Culture Knowledge Base ist kürzlich die 20. Handreichung erschienen!

In "Social-Media-Forschung zu Rechtsextremismus und Demokratie: Bestandsaufnahme, Leitlinien und infrastrukturelle Bedarfe (2025)" sammelte Vincent Fröhlich im Rahmen der Eventreihe "Show & Tell – Social Media-Daten in der Forschungspraxis" Antworten von drei Projekten auf sieben Leitfragen des Arbeitskreises „Social Media-Daten“, welche systematisch ausgewertet wurden.

Sources: Nvidia delays the release of its incremental gaming GPU upgrade, codenamed Kicker, marking the first year in three decades without a new GPU for gaming (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-delay-new-gaming-chi…

Nvidia to Delay New Gaming Chip Due to Memory Chip Shortage
Nvidia won’t release a new graphics chip for gamers this year due to a deepening global shortage of memory chips, prompted by the AI boom, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. It would be the first year in three decades that Nvidia hasn’t released a new graphics ...

Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announ…

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115992205728136392
From Nov, in Chicago. What we’re experiencing in Minneapolis, they experienced first — and I’m grateful for all the knowledge folks there gave us.

I think that this should indeed be public knowledge as we already pay for this with public money via the universities. The same is not true for the creative industry, including many individual artists that need to make a living off these creative works. But instead of addressing this issue of copyright (the fact that people don't have access to knowledge that is generated with their money) the blogposts are instead complaining that #AI should be exempted?
2/3

Bill Clinton denies knowledge of Epstein's crimes: 'I saw nothing' (Kaelan Deese/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/4474494/bill-clinton-denies-knowledge-epstein-crimes-saw-nothing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p70#a260227p70

LLMs are masters of the "Understood"—the vast library of human output. But they lack "Understanding"—the creative spark that generates those concepts in the first place.
https://www.ocrampal.com/the-understood-understanding-gap-why-llms-hit-…

The Understood-Understanding Gap: Why LLMs Hit a Wall
Large Language Models have become ubiquitous in knowledge work, yet a curious pattern has emerged. Talk to consultants at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and you'll hear the same refrain: "I don't really know how I can leverage AI to boost my productivity beyond research and brainstorming." The same applies to programmers,

The knowledge to save coffee already exists, now it’s in one e-library
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/the-knowledge-to-save-coffee-already-exists-now-its-in-one-e-library/

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."
No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.
So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western …

World’s Oldest Poisoned Arrowheads Date Back 60,000 Years, Show Hunters’ Knowledge of Toxins https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/worlds-oldest-poisoned-arrowheads-date-back-60000-years-show-hunters-knowledge-of-toxins/

World’s Oldest Poisoned Arrowheads Date Back 60,000 Years, Show Hunters’ Knowledge of Toxins
The research team identified chemical residues of poison from gifbol, a poisonous plant still used by traditional hunters in the region.

so this password manager paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058 starts with:
> We examine the extent to which security against a fully malicious server holds true for three leading vendors who make the Zero Knowledge Encryption claim: Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane
with

Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers
Zero Knowledge Encryption is a term widely used by vendors of cloud-based password managers. Although it has no strict technical meaning, the term conveys the idea that the server, who stores encrypted password vaults on behalf of users, is unable to learn anything about the contents of those vaults. The security claims made by vendors imply that this should hold even if the server is fully malicious. This threat model is justified in practice by the high sensitivity of vault data, which makes …

Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise ~$1B at a $7.5B pre-money valuation, up from $3.3B in 2025; its annualized revenue has hit ~$1B, up 3x from mid-2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-cloud-ally-…

Nvidia Cloud Ally Together AI in Talks to Raise at $7.5 Billion Valuation
Together AI, one of several up-and-coming cloud providers renting out Nvidia chip servers to AI developers, is in talks with investors to raise around $1 billion in funding at a $7.5 billion valuation before the investment, according to two people with knowledge of the fundraise. The funding ...

If you're trying to play Mewgenics via #CrossOver on #macOS in #Steam and you get crackling audio, exit the game and Steam and then launch Wine Configuration and add the Mewgenics exe in your Steam app folder to the "Applications" tab and set the compatibility level to (yes) "Windows XP"
Can confirm this worked for me - adding this tidbit to my workarounds knowledge
https://www.reddit.com/r/Codeweavers_Crossover/comments/1r1sefz/comment/o54kpg1/

"Is Subscribe to Open Good for Libraries?" @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/is-s20-good-for-libraries
"Three librarians explain the model’s appeal and explore the challenge…

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate
knowledge of its ugly side.
-- James Baldwin

Excellent blog by @mobilityhouse.com on #V2G / bidirectional charging standards.
https://mobilityhouse-energy.com/int_en/knowledge-center/ar…

Expert discussion on bidirectional charging standards
We discuss charging standards for bidirectional charging with our CTO, the Head of Bidirectional Charging Solutions, and our operating system provider EcoG.

Yesterday, in a rush to be obedient, I searched for a high-performance way to parse text and refreshed my knowledge of #streams/#iterators and #yield in #JavaScript. Let's see where the journey takes …

Without health insurance in #Alaska: Helicopter transport and appendictomiy cost $60,000–$140,000. The entire cost must be borne by the individual.
It is not unlikely that #Inuit in the USA lack health insurance; a quarter live below the poverty line.

Poverty and Health Disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects
This report explores the current state of knowledge regarding inequalities and their effect on American Indian and Alaska Native children, underscoring gaps in our current knowledge and the opportunities for early intervention to begin to address ...

🙊 Spider monkeys found to share ‘insider knowledge’ to help locate best food
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/25/spider-monkeys-found-to-share-insider-knowledge-to-help-locate-best-food

Spider monkeys found to share ‘insider knowledge’ to help locate best food
Researchers observed the primates switching social groups and passing information on where to find the ripest fruit

Exclusive: Trump's top envoy negotiating Ukraine's fate displays 'shocking' lack of knowledge about war, politics: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/28/exclusive-trumps-top-envoy-negotiating.html

Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with advanced world knowledge and precision text rendering and translation, across its products (Naina Raisinghani/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed
Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.

Early data show wages are rising for AI-exposed jobs that place a high value on a "worker's tacit knowledge and experience", as textbook knowledge loses value (J. Scott Davis/Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2026/0224

AI is simultaneously aiding and replacing workers, wage data suggest
Artificial intelligence’s impact on the labor market will depend on whether the technology automates or augments worker tasks.

#WhichYear 3/4/26
3195 pts
13.8 avg. years off
🎯 4️⃣ 7️⃣ ⚪ ⚪
https://whichyr.com

Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game
Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.

I've been worried AI will crowd out human voices, and now an AI copy has replaced my 2006 Connected Knowledge site, warping context and displacing the original work online. Can we stop this creeping ensloppification?
https://www.linkedin.…

Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announ…

Wer mal richtig mit Musik 🎶 , KI 🤖 und dem Culture Knowledge Graph 🐙 hacken will, ist ganz herzlich zur Teilnahme an der Data Challenge von @… und @… eingeladen! Das Ziel lautet "Develo…

"Spider monkeys found to share ‘insider knowledge’ to help locate best food"
#SpiderMonkey #Animals

Super Bowl trivia: Questions for all 59 NFL championship games that will stump even the savviest football fans

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-trivia-ques…

Source: OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5.4, which will feature an "extreme" reasoning mode and a context window of 1M tokens, up from 400K in GPT-5.2 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-next-a…

OpenAI’s Next AI Model Will Have ‘Extreme’ Reasoning
OpenAI’s next GPT model is coming—and soon, according to a person with knowledge of it.Among the highlights, the new model, GPT-5.4, will have more than double the context window of the current GPT-5.2 model. That means the model can handle queries with many more words or data, up to 1 million ...

When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Today we have more information than any civilization in history.
But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private …

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked

The Master Key: One Secret to Solve Every Philosophical Mystery. Dissolving the Dualities: Why Concepts are the Foundation of Thought.
https://www.ocrampal.com/how-solving-the-concept-problem-unlocks-philosophys-greatest-mysteries/

How Solving the Concept Problem Unlocks Philosophy's Greatest Mysteries
Philosophy has wrestled with seemingly intractable problems for millennia: How does mind relate to body? What makes knowledge objective rather than merely subjective? How do we bridge the gap between inner experience and outer reality? These questions have spawned countless theories, debates, and entire philosophical traditions, yet they remain as

Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026 #acrel

…sometimes there’s •not• a clear standard way. Sometimes you need flexibility. For example, a lot of what makes UI programming hard is layout: you have to make your own very specific application look good on a variety of devices and screens, which means coming up with an •algorithm• for adjusting your design for all those different contexts.
That’s an intrinsically hard problem that requires design chops and nuance and contextual knowledge. Attempts to abstract the decisions out of that problem have been stubbornly unsuccessful. (How many layout engines are out there now?)

Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-early-talks-trade-desk-sell-ad…

OpenAI Held Early Talks With The Trade Desk to Sell Ads
OpenAI has held early talks to partner with The Trade Desk, a publicly traded ad tech company, to help the ChatGPT maker sell ads, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The talks indicate that OpenAI, which launched ads in ChatGPT in early February, will initially lean on ...

Amazon's AI Tool Listed Products from Small Businesses Without Their Knowledge - Slashdot
https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/12/036215/amazons-ai-tool-listed-products-from-small-businesses-without-their-knowledge

Sources: OpenAI ramped up efforts to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its AI-powered personal device, which is expected to be largely audio-based (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ramps-audio…

OpenAI Ramps Up Audio AI Efforts Ahead of Device
OpenAI is taking steps to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its eventual release of an AI-powered personal device, said a person with knowledge of the effort. The device is expected to be largely audio-based, said three people with knowledge of it. When people speak to ChatGPT, the ...

"For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?" @ Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/for-researchers-in-the-humanities-is-open-really-fair "The open …

Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announ…

Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/e

Exclusive: Ex-Google DeepMind Researchers Raising $100 Million to Build ‘World Models’
Embo, an AI startup co-founded by former Google DeepMind research scientists, is in talks to raise a seed round of more than $100 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The startup’s founders, Danijar Hafner and Wilson Yan, are developing world models—which process images, video, and audio to approximate the physics of real-world

'I did nothing wrong': Bill Clinton denies knowledge of Epstein abuse in deposition (Emily Brooks/The Hill)
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Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-developing-alternative-micro…

OpenAI Is Developing an Internal Alternative to Microsoft’s GitHub
OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub, Microsoft’s popular code repository that lets software engineers store, share and collaborate on computer code, according to a person with knowledge of the project. The decision to embark on the new product came after OpenAI engineers, like other ...

Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announ…

Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with advanced world knowledge and precision text rendering and translation, across its products (Naina Raisinghani/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed
Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.

Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announ…

Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announ…

Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026
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Sources: Uber is in talks to acquire the parking space reservation app SpotHero; the parking app was last valued at $290M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/uber-considers-deal-parking-app-spothero

Uber Considers Deal for Parking App SpotHero
Uber has been in talks to acquire parking app SpotHero, a popular service that allows drivers to reserve parking spaces, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. Founded in 2011, SpotHero connects drivers looking to reserve and pay for parking spaces with parking lots, parking ...

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OpenAI fired an employee for insider trading on prediction markets like Polymarket; Unusual Whales has flagged 77 suspected insider trades around OpenAI events (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fires-employee-insider-trading-polymarke…

OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

Source: OpenAI expects to raise an additional $10B from financial investors by the end of March 2026, bringing its post-investment valuation to $850B (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-…

OpenAI to Raise an Additional $10 Billion in Funding From Financial Investors
OpenAI expects to raise an additional $10 billion from financial investors by the end of March, adding to the $110 billion it’s secured from SoftBank, Amazon and Nvidia, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. That additional funding will bring OpenAI’s post-investment valuation to $850 billion, including a $35 billion tranche of funding from Amazon conditional on the

Sources: Meta last week scrapped the most advanced AI chip it was developing, after struggling with the design, and shifted its focus to a less complicated chip (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/metas-internal-chip-design-effo…

Meta’s Internal Chip Design Efforts Hit Roadblocks
As Meta Platforms strikes new chip supply deals with AMD and Nvidia, it has been running into problems with AI chips it is designing internally, according to six people with direct knowledge of the matter. Meta last week scrapped the most advanced chip it was developing for training AI models, ...

Sources: Saronic, which is building autonomous warships, is raising up to $1.5B at a ~$7.5B pre-money valuation; Saronic was last valued at $3.4B a year ago (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/autonomous-warship-s…

Autonomous Warship Startup Saronic Raising at $7.5 Billion Valuation
Saronic, a startup that builds autonomous warships, is raising as much as $1.5 billion in a financing that would value the company at about $7.5 billion, before including the investment, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Kleiner Perkins, the storied venture capital firm that ...

Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $30B from Nvidia, less than $10B from Microsoft, and $10B-$20B from Amazon as part of a $100B funding round (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-microsoft-amazon-…

Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon in Talks to Invest Up to $60 Billion in OpenAI
OpenAI is lining up huge checks from some of its biggest tech partners, as it seeks to raise up to $100 billion to fund growing demand for its AI. Nvidia, an existing investor whose chips power OpenAI’s AI models, is in talks to invest up to $30 billion, according to a person with knowledge of ...